Inbox isn’t Google’s only email app casualty this year

Maggie Cunningham |Thursday, September 13, 2018

Google is Killing Inbox

The company has announced the end of Inbox via social media, announcing they are ending the service in favour of concentrating on features for Gmail. Hopefully, we see it before the March 2019 retirement date for Inbox. This added functionality pulled a good number of users away from Gmail as they added to the email experience without combining the usual headaches caused by using third-party email clients.

Google, however, did not exactly reveal why it is shutting down the Inbox app. Google Gmail product manager Matthew Izatt announced this in a blog post. At the time when it launched Gmail lacked numerous features it has today.

The service - which came in the form of iOS and Android apps and its own website - funneled mails from your Gmail account to a different, slightly more gesture-driven interface with its own unique set of options.

What do you think about Google killing support for Inbox? Gmail also gets more than one billion monthly active users as of 2018 - quite a bit more than all other webmail platforms combined - so even with Google's marketing dollars, Inbox had a challenging road ahead of it from the beginning. Having about six months of warning will give Inbox fans a chance to get their personal workflow going in Gmail, but it'll probably never be the same. It's a service many of us use every single day.

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